Yes another anti-LBP thread.

[mike_intellivision]

MontanaHatchet said:

mike_intellivision said:

dougsdad0629 said:
This might sound weird, but I think the gameplay isn't really the point. As long as it is passable, which it seems like it is, the game will do well. The whole point of this game is creative freedom and a sense of community. The actual "gameplay" of running through the levels is just the means by which you view and experience someone's creation.

If gameplay is not important ... then why do we play games?

If this turns out to be more art program than game, it will have a lot of trouble moving beyond a certain level of sales (1M? 2M?). And it won't move systems.

Basically, beyond a core group of gamers who think user created is the greatest thing since sliced bread, there are a lot of gamers who just want to play. And this type of game -- 2.5D platform -- has not fared well on the PS3 so far.

 

Mike from Morgantown

PS -- I think the score will be in the 90-or-above range because reviewers will love the game, even if people don't take to it as much as they think people should. (Can anyone say "Beyond Good and Evil"? -- highly reviewed, great gameplay, poor sales).

First you said it had poor gameplay, and then you made a comparison to Beyond Good and Evil which you claimed had great gameplay. I'm guessing you're making a comparison to show that Little Big Planet will have poor sales, which is really unrelated to the quality of the game and is just a method for people to troll the game when questioning its quality fails. I''d also like to know if Beyond Good and Evil was being advertised months before launch and being highly hyped by major gaming sites.

I wasn't paying attention at the time, but you seem to be an expert on the game.

 

 

Let me make some clarifying commments.

I am certainly guilty of mixed metaphors.

First, I said that if it did not have gameplay, it would be niche title. That is in reaction to the comment that gameplay was not important.

Second, it appears to me that platformers have not fared well on the PS3 "saleswise" -- this was not a statement about game quality.

Finally, the reference to BG&E was a game that did not sell as well as reviewers thought it should. LBP could be that ... but given that we were talking about the quality of gameplay and inference was that it was not outstanding, the comparison is not fully approrpriate.

Objection by Montana Hatchet is sustained!

However, even if gameplay is outstanding, it might still not sell like gangbusters because of the console and the nature of the game (user-generated content does not automatically mean big sales). So in that case, it could end up being like BG&E.